“I don’t know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That’s where the mind moves, that’s what’s new.” Anne Carson talks to Emma Brockes atThe Guardian [via http://www.thepage.name/] [T]his is a woman who will happily devote 50 pages to discussing 14th-century French mysticism and round it off with a joke about […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Middle et al Reading
Event Link: Poets can be heard online or off the air today. Probably every day but in this case it will be Max Middle, Sandra Ridley and Hugh Thomas who will be interviewed this evening on the radio in advance of them doing their reading this Saturday. [Max is the one pictured on the left […]
Byrne, and Beckett Interviews
Now this is cool. A solution to two problems at once. a) How to format online text with spaces in poetry without a huge amount of characters, and b) to do erasure poetry without an image that would be slow to load. Mairead Byrne takes a news story and just changes the text color to […]
Conferences and Festivals
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” — Wayne Dyer The AWP (The Association of Writers & Writing Programs est. 1967) Conference is now on in Georgia. In 2008 it’s in NYC January 30 and February 2. It has: · More than 400 Presses, Publishers, & Journals at AWP’s Bookfair […]
Context of Writing
Ann White’s piece on getting into the method of Louise Gluck is useful to me. Having read only part of one book by Gluck I wasn’t sure I could get a general sense of what she does since it didn’t grab me and I’m poor at keeping at reading something that doesn’t grab me. White’s […]